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The remaining strokes are sorted according to the speed, with breaststroke being the slowest, butterfly in the middle, and freestyle being the fastest stroke. The order of the strokes for medley relay is as follows: [5] Backstroke; Breaststroke; Butterfly; Freestyle: It can be any stroke except butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke. [2]
Technical-suited Amaury Leveaux set world records of 44.94 seconds in the 100 m freestyle, 20.48 seconds in the 50 m freestyle and 22.18 in the 50 m butterfly, spending more than half of each race submerged, more than any of his competitors. [14] Subsequently, FINA made a rule that swimmers may not go farther than 15 metres underwater. [15]
Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters (55 yards) and reaching 1,500 meters (1,600 yards), [2] also known as the mile. The term 'freestyle stroke' is sometimes used as a synonym for 'front crawl', [3] as front crawl is the fastest surface swimming stroke. [4]
According to FINA, no swimmer may travel more than 15 meters (16.4 yards) off of a start or turn in the backstroke, butterfly and freestyle underwater. [5] Breaststroke is only allowed one complete arm stroke followed by a butterfly kick and breaststroke kick. [6] After fifteen meters, the swimmer must break the surface of the water.
That is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous mark of 55.68 set by Australian ... 200 m butterfly: 2:03.31 2009 100 m freestyle: 52.76 2009 200 m freestyle: 1:54.88 ...
In the S2 50 m Freestyle Long Course, the men's world record is held by the American Curtis Lovejoy with a time of 01:00.11 and the women's world record is held by the Ukrainian Ganna Ielisavetska with a time of 01:07.15 in 2011. [50]
2 53.78 Jani Sievinen Finland: 21 Nov 1992: European Championships Espoo, Finland [2] 2 53.78 = Jani Sievinen Finland: 24 Jan 1996: World Cup Sheffield, United Kingdom [3] 3 53.10 Jani Sievinen Finland: 30 Jan 1996: World Cup Malmö, Sweden [2] 4 52.79 Neil Walker United States: 18 Mar 2000: World Championships: Athens, Greece [4] 5 52.63 sf ...
Later in the same session he won the gold medal in the 200 meter butterfly with a personal best time of 1:49.69, which was 0.09 seconds faster than silver medalist Chad le Clos. [81] Day three of three, he won the silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 1:42.35, finishing 0.03 seconds behind gold medalist and fellow ...